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cockneyism|ˈkɒknɪɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
1. Quality characteristic of a cockney; cockney manners, speech, etc.
1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 373 His [Leigh Hunt's] account of the meeting is a precious piece of cockneyism. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. III. xxiii. 187 The charge of Cockneyism frightened the booksellers. 1864Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 104 Men..had so steeped their brains in London literature as to mistake Cockneyism for European culture.
2. A cockney characteristic (e.g. in idiom or pronunciation).
1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xiii. (1878) 254 [He] had not caught up many cockneyisms instead. 1867Ch. & State Rev. 12 Jan. 31 Exaggerated cockneyisms. |